Textile Company

A Clothing Manufacturer/ A garment company/ an apparel company

He set up this clothing manufacturer in 1999

The number of workers reaches 70

To stitch: To sew
Kho nguyên liệu: Raw material storage/stores/warehouse/storeroom

Dây chuyền: assembly line = production line

Products are carefully checked as they COME OFF the production line
The workers WORK ON an (automated) assembly line. First, they familiarized on an
automated production line as the probation period is three months’ time

He wants to show you the (merchandised) assembly line

MUK Ltd. Vietnam has been operating in the ladies fashion manufacturing business for six
years and has built a solid foundation for delivering quality driven, ethically produced, design
lead products. Originating in Ho Chi Minh City, Made Clothing has since grown each year to
its present capacity of 200,000 garments per month
(The company has been working at full capacity of 200,000 garments per month; the
company has a high/limited capacity of 200,000 garments per month)

. MUK Ltd. offers exceptional customer service at the most competitive prices. Using high
quality, trend focused fabrics and trim, we offer a diverse and commercial range of ladies
wear. Producing garments for clients located all around the globe, we are currently exporting
to countries such as England, USA, Canada, Australia and Germany.

The company offers

apparel manufacturing service that includes sourcing fabric, trims (decorative stuff), and
accessories. They will sew the garments according to your tech packs and deliver the finished
goods to the nearest Ho Chi Minh City port. Their merchandising teams focus on sourcing
high quality, trend focused fabric and trims. With their vast network of suppliers throughout
Vietnam, China and Korea they are continually seeking new suppliers. This allows them to
supply their customers with up to date trends with an efficient lead time.
They have their own sampling room in Saigon and are able to test and develop existing
designs. They take their customers from conception to completion.
They have on site QC and QA inspection teams who monitor every stage of the production
process. Their QA teams check the factory’s inline and final quality inspections following strict
AQL standards.

The company sources fabric out of China, Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam. The majority of the
fabric they work with is ITY out of Korea. They have great sources for Georgette, Crepe,
Chiffon, Cambric and Chintz. They get the fabric into Vietnam, to the factories and re-
exported within 30 to 90 days.

They have to honor their fabric suppliers minimum order quantities. This is 1,000 meters of
fabric. So, if you consumption per garment is 1.5 linear meters per garment then their
minimum, in terms of garments, would be around 650 pieces - that's per color. If you want to
do less than that then they need to pay a surcharge to order quantities of fabric below their
suppliers MOQ.

CLOTHING MANUFACTURERS IN VIETNAM

the textile and garment industry employs more than 1.6 million people, accounting for more
than 12% of the industrial workforce and nearly 5% of the country's total labor force.

Vietnam textile and garment industry consists of two major parts: textile and garment. The
textile sector includes fiber spinning, shuttle weaving, dyeing and finishing. The garment
sector uses the main material as fabric and some other accessories such as thread, lace,
button, etc., through designing, cutting and using the sewing machine to make the final
garment. The textile and garment enterprises are businesses operating in the field from
spinning, weaving, dyeing, and finishing fabrics to materials such as thread, laces, buttons,
cutter, auxiliary equipment and final products.

In the last five years, the textile and garment industry has a high export turnover with an
average growth rate of about 15% over the years, contributing about 15% of the total export
turnover of Vietnam. Vietnam is the fourth largest textile and garment exporter in the world,
following China, India and Bangladesh, especially during the economic crisis from 2008 to
2014

mainly small enterprises, management skills are limited, labor productivity is not high and
marketing capacity is not suitable with production capacity, businesses have almost no long-
term development strategy.

the average annual growth rate of the textile industry is about 14.4% and the garment
industry is about 8.1%.

Main markets and products

The products of Vietnam’s textile and garment industry are sold in both domestic and foreign
markets. In the domestic market, they are sold in markets, retail stores, supermarkets, trade
centers and accounts for about 14%. The products of Vietnam’s textile and garment industry
are exported to more than 180 countries and territories worldwide (Le Hong Thuan, 2017).
In particular, the main markets are the United States, the EU, Japan, Korea, and some other
markets such as ASEAN, Canada, China, and Taiwan.

Vietnam textile and garment products mainly consist of jackets, t-shirts, pants and shirts,
skirts, children's clothing and other products such as: vest clothes, sweaters, swimwear
towel. In particular, in 2013, export value of jackets reached 3.88 billion USD; up 19.6% over
the same period and accounted for 21.6% of total garment export value. T-shirts and trousers
witnessed impressive growth rate of 23.7% and 25.8% respectively over the same period with
the export value of US$ 3.76 billion and US$ 3.01 billion, accounting for about 20.9% and
16.8% of the total value of garment export. Shirts has export value of about US$ 1 billion,
growing by 14.6% and accounting for 5.7% of total textile and garment export value. Other
products such as skirts accounting for 5.5%, children's clothing accounting for 5.0%, and the
remaining products accounting for 24.6% (Bui Van Tot, 2014).

According to statistics by Bui Van Tot (2014), there are about 6,000 companies operating in
the textile and garment sector in Vietnam, of which small and medium enterprises account
for a large proportion. In terms of ownership, about 84% of textile and garment enterprises
are private; 15% are foreign invested enterprises and about 1% is SOEs.